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25 May 2018 4:07:50am

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Saturday 14th September Disarming Syria.

The ABC obviously got bored with the civil war in Syria. It soon became the same old story - hopeless refugees fleeing the crisis, a bewildering and pointless conflict, one bunch of baddies fighting another. Where was the action, where was the drama? news editors would ask.

So now this unhappy civil war has "morphed into a dramatic power struggle between two men Obama & Putin". "brinkmanship of the highest order" That is more like it: drama, clash of the titans, leadership struggles. Something Newsworthy to talk about, not the dirty messy business of ordinary Syrians struggling to survive.

What a load of rubbish. S.E. editors should be ashamed of themselves for peddling such nonsense. The 'media' lives in it's own fantasy land, exists in it's own virtual thought bubble inside the T.V. screen.

Kurt Campbell dismissed this media nonsense in a very calm & professional manner. Thankfully Obama obviously looked at the mess in Syria and concluded that there was nothing a sane man could do to intervene in that madness. That is not weakness, that is being sensible.

The ABC referenced Time magazine as it's authoritative source, which is rather like relying on office gossip to give you facts on company accounts. Geraldine asked "how did the Syrian conflict so quickly become a major test of Obama?" Obviously, because the media (time magazine), made it so. It is a media invention. If it had not been reported in such dramatic terms, the 'conflict' between America & Russia would have been dealt with by sensible people in routine meetings.

"Strong men versus the rest" , "fatal perceptions of weakness"..... Stop hyperventilating Geraldine it is embarrassing to listen to you talk like that.

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